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Checkout Gateway for Paddle vs Amazon Pay for WooCommerce

Head-to-head on the signals that matter, from the public WordPress.org data.

Checkout Gateway for Paddle is the safest pick: health B · 83 against 74 for Amazon Pay for WooCommerce, led by stronger rating quality.

Active-install trajectory

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Active installs, each indexed to 100 at the start of the window. A line above 100 is growing its install base, below 100 is shrinking.

Metric	Checkout Gateway for Paddle	Amazon Pay for WooCommerce
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	80–90	10K–20K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	+700% ✓	20K+ → 10K+
Overall health	B · 83 ✓	B · 74
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100	100/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	74/100 ✓	48/100
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.0★ ✓	2.9★
Reviews	1	27 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	87/100	93/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	14d ago	8d ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	448	22.4K ✓
Download momentum, last 30d vs prior 30d Dips that follow a release spike are normal: wp.org counts every update as a download, so the weeks after a release run lower.	+9%	+6%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	3.9% ✓	1.7%
Category	eCommerce	eCommerce

✓ marks the stronger plugin on each row. Rows where they're level show no marker.

Release activity

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7-day average daily downloads. Downloads spike for about a week after each release as the install base re-downloads, so read this as release cadence, not growth.